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If it's not killing people, how is it a health crisis? Would it be a public health crisis if we had a meteoric rise in teens swimming, given that the risk of de
by 34679 7y ago
If it's not killing people, how is it a health crisis? Would it be a public health crisis if we had a meteoric rise in teens swimming, given that the risk of death or illness from swimming is far higher than it is from vaping?
- ceejayoz 7y ago> If it's not killing people, how is it a health crisis? I'm not sure we can safely say we know the long-term impact of vaping nicotine yet. There are also indications that the uptick in vaping has stalled the decline in cigarette smoking. https://www.concordmonitor.com/Youth-smoking-decline-stalls-and-vaping-may-be-to-blame-23442052 https://www.concordmonitor.com/Youth-smoking-decline-stalls-...
- decebalus1 7y ago> I'm not sure we can safely say we know the long-term impact of vaping nicotine yet. So we can't say if it's a health crisis.. yet. Right? We also don't know of the long-term impact of melatonin but we're not considering people consuming it when they have insomnia to be a health crisis, right?
- ceejayoz 7y agoWe've got evidence it's negatively affecting the known health crisis of cigarette smoking. I'm inclined to treat non-addictive melatonin and extremely-addictive nicotine differently in how we approach potential health risks.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 7y agoThe key word here is addiction.